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Allee effect

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The Allee effect is a phenomenon in biology in which a population's mean individual fitness, often measured as its per capita growth rate, is correlated with its own size or density, so a population's growth prospects change as its numbers rise or fall. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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